Patents by Inventor Yasunori Yamamoto

Yasunori Yamamoto has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9756767
    Abstract: A power conversion apparatus includes: a cooling air passage defined with cooling fins of upper and lower converters and cooling fins of an inverter opposed to each other; upper and lower blowing fans provided upstream of the cooling air passage; and upper and lower sucking fans provided downstream of the cooling air passage and at positions offset from the converters. The blowing fans are provided for supplying cooling air from upstream of the cooling air passage, and the sucking fans are provided for discharging air from within a casing of the apparatus to the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori Shin, Takayuki Komatsu, Katsuhiro Nakagawa, Yasunori Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9698574
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an igniter circuit may include a circuit to determine if the current through a load switch exceeds a threshold value, and to responsively disable a second switch that couples DC power to the igniter circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Yasunori Yamamoto, Mikio Yamagishi
  • Publication number: 20170141545
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an igniter circuit may include a circuit to determine if the current through a load switch exceeds a threshold value, and to responsively disable a second switch that couples DC power to the igniter circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Yasunori YAMAMOTO, Mikio YAMAGISHI
  • Patent number: 9525273
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an igniter circuit may include a circuit to determine if the current through a load switch exceeds a threshold value, and to responsively disable a second switch that couples DC power to the igniter circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Yasunori Yamamoto, Mikio Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 9441672
    Abstract: A method for producing a holder in which sagging is suppressed in a bent part to be formed into a flange portion, without using bulge forming and a split mold that restrains the inside of a working target article; and a holder. An upper punch presses and bends one end portion of a working target article inward, whereby a flange portion is formed in the one end portion. A smaller-diameter portion of the working target article is restrained from the inside and outside by a lower punch and split mold portions. Then, a peripheral surface portion of a convex portion of the upper punch receives the end portion of the working target article and applies an outward pressure to the end portion. A bent part is pushed toward a larger-diameter portion restraining part of a split die, so that sagging is prevented from occurring in the bent part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiya Mano, Hiroshi Nakahashi, Kouhei Kondou, Hajime Kawamura, Shingo Kinpara, Yasunori Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20160249492
    Abstract: A power conversion apparatus includes: a cooling air passage defined with cooling fins of upper and lower converters and cooling fins of an inverter opposed to each other; upper and lower blowing fans provided upstream of the cooling air passage; and upper and lower sucking fans provided downstream of the cooling air passage and at positions offset from the converters. The blowing fans are provided for supplying cooling air from upstream of the cooling air passage, and the sucking fans are provided for discharging air from within a casing of the apparatus to the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Masanori Shin, Takayuki Komatsu, Katsuhiro Nakagawa, Yasunori Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20160168425
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide an adhesive sheet having a surface sliding property and stainproof property. [Means for solving] An adhesive sheet is one that comprises at least a substrate and an adhesive layer, a static friction coefficient of the substrate is 0.05 or more and 1.50 or less, and an absolute value of a ?L* value of the substrate is 0.01 or more and 45.00 or less. A load at a time of 5% elongation of the substrate is preferably 1 N/cm or more and 15 N/cm or less. And a stress relaxation rate of the substrate by elongating to 10%, stopping the elongation at that state and after lapsing 600 seconds is preferably 40% or more and 100% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiichi IMOTO, Yoshio NAKAGAWA, Kenichi NISHIKAWA, Yasunori YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160137884
    Abstract: This invention provides a PSA sheet having excellent fog preventability and rough surface conformability. Provided is a PSA sheet that comprises a substrate and a PSA layer provided on one face of the substrate. The PSA layer has an adhesive face that exhibits a 180° peel strength of 0.30 N/20 mm or greater to a polypropylene rough surface. The PSA sheet also shows a fog preventability of 80% or greater in the glass fogging test.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori YAMAMOTO, Takeshi IGARASHI
  • Patent number: 9325271
    Abstract: In a parallel running control apparatus for an inverter generator A having a first, second and third inverters each connected to three windings wound around an alternator driven by an engine and converts alternating current outputted therefrom to direct/alternating current to output alternating current, and first, second and third controllers to control turning ON/OFF of the switching elements, and the inverter generator A is configured to run in parallel with at least one inverter generator B which is configured to be same as the inverter generator A to output a three-phase alternating current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoji Hashimoto, Kazufumi Muronoi, Maodao Fu, Yasunori Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9325685
    Abstract: An authentication switch monitors a failure of an external server, and redirect information to a Web server that holds authentication information registration screen data is provided to a terminal using a monitoring result. A life-and-death monitoring control unit for monitoring life and death of an external Web server is disposed within an authentication switch to monitor the life and death of the external Web server. An authentication processing unit within the authentication switch switches the redirect information on the basis of a life-and-death monitoring table of the external Web server provided in the life-and-death monitoring control unit in response to an authentication request from the terminal, and enables web authentication even when the external Web server is in failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: ALAXALA Networks Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Yamamoto, Hidemitsu Higuchi, Motohide Nomi
  • Patent number: 9237627
    Abstract: Short circuit failures and open circuit failures of light-emitting elements used for the backlight in an LCD panel can be reliably and easily detected. The voltage at the node between each series-connected light-emitting element array and a drive circuit is detected as a monitored voltage. A maximum detector detects the highest and a minimum detector detects the lowest of these monitored voltages. Short circuit or open circuit failure of a light-emitting element is detected by comparing the voltage difference between the maximum detector output and the minimum detector output with a specific reference voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Go Takata, Shinichiro Kataoka, Yasunori Yamamoto, Tsukasa Kawahara, Ryuji Ueda, Daisuke Itou
  • Publication number: 20150218424
    Abstract: Provided is a surface protective sheet substrate capable of forming a surface protective sheet endowed with both curling inhibition and adhesion mark inhibition. The surface protective sheet substrate provided by this invention comprises a polyolefin resin which accounts for more than 50% by weight of the entire substrate. The substrate comprises a layer X constituting a first surface of the substrate and a layer Y constituting the second surface of the substrate. The layer X is constituted with a resin composition having a tensile elastic modulus (EX) of 400 MPa or greater, but 750 MPa or less. The layer Y is constituted with a resin composition having a tensile elastic modulus (EY) of 400 MPa or greater, but 750 MPa or less. The layer X has a thickness tX and the layer Y has a thickness tY, satisfying 0.5?tX·EX·tY·EY?1.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi IGARASHI, Yasunori YAMAMOTO, Nao WAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20150217546
    Abstract: Provided is a surface protective sheet substrate capable of bringing about weatherability with less weathering stabilizer. The surface protective sheet substrate provided by this invention comprises a polyolefin resin accounting for more than 50% by weight of the entire substrate. The substrate comprises an inorganic weathering stabilizer-containing layer which comprises an inorganic weathering stabilizer. The inorganic weathering stabilizer-containing layer has a thickness of 10 ?m or larger, but smaller than 40 ?m. The inorganic weathering stabilizer content accounts for 8% by weight or more of the inorganic weathering stabilizer-containing layer. The inorganic weathering stabilizer content per unit area of substrate is 2.0 g/m2 or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi IGARASHI, Yasunori YAMAMOTO, Nao WAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20150184380
    Abstract: An improved pitched rigid frame structure in which an inside space is made lager than previous ones. The pitched rigid frame structure includes a pair of posts; diagonal beams extending from a post top of each post and joining to configure a pitched roof; an angle brace built between a point on a post and a point on a diagonal beam, the point on the post descending from a crossing point of the post and an axis line of the diagonal beam, the point on the diagonal beam heading from each post top to an apex of the pitched roof, and an inclined tension member built between a lower end of a compression member hanging from the apex of the pitched roof and the point on the diagonal beams building the angle brace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: YAMAMOTOKOUMUTEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasunori Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20150036961
    Abstract: A method for producing a holder in which sagging is suppressed in a bent part to be formed into a flange portion, without using bulge forming and a split mold that restrains the inside of a working target article; and a holder. An upper punch presses and bends one end portion of a working target article inward, whereby a flange portion is formed in the one end portion. A smaller-diameter portion of the working target article is restrained from the inside and outside by a lower punch and split mold portions. Then, a peripheral surface portion of a convex portion of the upper punch receives the end portion of the working target article and applies an outward pressure to the end portion. A bent part is pushed toward a larger-diameter portion restraining part of a split die, so that sagging is prevented from occurring in the bent part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshiya Mano, Hiroshi Nakahashi, Kouhei Kondou, Hajime Kawamura, Shingo Kinpara, Yasunori Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20150022089
    Abstract: Short circuit failures and open circuit failures of light-emitting elements used for the backlight in an LCD panel can be reliably and easily detected. The voltage at the node between each series-connected light-emitting element array and a drive circuit is detected as a monitored voltage. A maximum detector detects the highest and a minimum detector detects the lowest of these monitored voltages. Short circuit or open circuit failure of a light-emitting element is detected by comparing the voltage difference between the maximum detector output and the minimum detector output with a specific reference voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Go TAKATA, Shinichiro KATAOKA, Yasunori YAMAMOTO, Tsukasa KAWAHARA, Ryuji UEDA, Daisuke ITOU
  • Patent number: 8913363
    Abstract: An overcurrent protection circuit includes: a determiner configured to determine whether or not the switch current exceeds a predetermined threshold, that is, the switch current is an overcurrent state when the switching element is turned ON; an OFF period setting counter configured to increase or decrease a counter output depending on a determination result of the determiner; and a drive signal generator configured to generate a drive signal of the switching element such that a length of an ON timing interval of the switching element corresponds to the counter output of the OFF period setting counter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Go Takata, Yasunori Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8878445
    Abstract: Short circuit failures and open circuit failures of light-emitting elements used for the backlight in an LCD panel can be reliably and easily detected. The voltage at the node between each series-connected light-emitting element array and a drive circuit is detected as a monitored voltage. A maximum detector detects the highest and a minimum detector detects the lowest of these monitored voltages. Short circuit or open circuit failure of a light-emitting element is detected by comparing the voltage difference between the maximum detector output and the minimum detector output with a specific reference voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Go Takata, Shinichiro Kataoka, Yasunori Yamamoto, Tsukasa Kawahara, Ryuji Ueda, Daisuke Itou
  • Publication number: 20140223511
    Abstract: An authentication switch monitors a failure of an external server, and redirect information to a Web server that holds authentication information registration screen data is provided to a terminal using a monitoring result. A life-and-death monitoring control unit for monitoring life and death of an external Web server is disposed within an authentication switch to monitor the life and death of the external Web server. An authentication processing unit within the authentication switch switches the redirect information on the basis of a life-and-death monitoring table of the external Web server provided in the life-and-death monitoring control unit in response to an authentication request from the terminal, and enables web authentication even when the external Web server is in failure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: ALAXALA Networks Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori YAMAMOTO, Hidemitsu HIGUCHI, Motohide NOMI
  • Patent number: 8587372
    Abstract: A multi-input differential amplifying device of the present invention includes: a differential amplifier having an inverting input terminal and a non-inverting input terminal; and an input portion configured to apply a first input voltage to a first input terminal that is one of the inverting input terminal and the non-inverting input terminal and apply a second input voltage to a second input terminal that is the other input terminal, the first input voltage corresponding to first input signals that are a plurality of input signals for the first input terminal, the second input voltage corresponding to a second input signal that is one input signal for the second input terminal. The input portion is configured to correct an offset voltage between the first input voltage and the second input voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhito Kimura, Yasunori Yamamoto